New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-14
PERSONAL.

aWhat perfect Easter day 1t has beeni" wero tho
last words Of ]. n Metcaf, the eminent musician VI
worcester Mass, who suddenly fell dead from heare
disease last Sunday evening
NJ Leconte do L'Isle, who has been instaiieo ~
Victor Hugo's chair in the French Academy, looks
like an old Puritan minister, with his smooth pas
sioness face, cold gray eyes, thin lips ana Sons
white hair brushed smoothly BACK
Professor Morse viii repeat his lectures on Japan
before the Peabody Institute Of Salem.
The Hon. EIhu b. washburne ia expected at Lew
iston, Maine, next month His health is not good
now.
When the Car secretly visited Paris last wh'er'
it is said he acted like schooboy on vacation 30
glad was he to be for time away from nis Nin"i''
The Rev. DIR. stratton will not take charge OF Mills
College California, until tho close or tho presonS
academic year
Mr. Chamberlain's enemies arc saying that during
her reccnt visit to Birmingham he offered 10 SNAKE
hands with the Queen but she OF course oeciinou'
A history of the MunsOn family Is being prepared,
beginning with the Pequ0t war, at WHICH sn'o 'n09
were first heard OF In this country
Mr.. Edwin D. Mead, of Boston, has gone West to
lecture.
Among those invited to attend tho unwilling Oh tno
Calhoun monument at Charleston, s. O., on April 70
are the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop and tho Hon. HAM
ton Fish.
stopping for few days at Cassel on his way from
Berlin back to Rome, the Duo dAosta sgmncahuy
and ally Of Italy,
At the dinner given last Saturday night In Boston
To Mr. Edgar Fawcett by Mr. and Mrs. b. H. TcKnor
.acb menu card bore title taken from one Oh sno
guests 9Social Silhouetes" lately puDilsheo IN ne
TRIBUNE, illustrated with pen ana Ink or@""s "
Miss Tcknor.
Mr. Jesso Ceilings Of "three acres and cow fame'
has a fine portrait OF ADraham Lni'oih Aoh S' ~
decoration Of his hall.
Miss Carol step-daughter Of the American Chargo
A. Afares at Vienna, was to be married yesterday w
Count Anton Heuszenstamm
Tho Rev. Dr. Joseph T. Duryea. Of Boston, Is losing
health and has had to stop preaching Tor tin"'
Ires,dent Roberts Of the Pennsylvania kaliroad'
and family arc expected at Cape May this week.
prIncess Valerie second daughter OF tho Emperor Oh
A,str,a ba. taken to writing verses good ones too
say the critics. .o 10
Ex-prosident white last week began course OF
lectures at Cornell University on Modern oerh'a'
History. euo,.rr Tor
Tho MARQUIS OF Lothian, the new Secretary lor
Scotland is the head OF the ker (Kerr or Carr iam
Tho Kers OF Cessford played great part IN ahcien.
border feuds against tho SCOTS. In .Tne Lay .s vi
the Last Minstrel Il nemoraole propmHdS never be
quarrel between these two houses Wouu no'or NO
settled But It was. in 1869. by a marriage
The Rev. w. F. Nichols, who Is going from onrn'
Church. Hartford, to the great parish Oh d. 'aho' %
PHILADELPHIA has been In the former charge zen var u,
and has been very successful In all departments VI
church work , L. -.
The Hon. David A. Wells has returned TO MS
Connecticut homo from his trip to the West Indies
with treat gains In health and fine assortment VI
tropical fruits and other products.
w.surscroy April l3-Mr. Bancroft, the historian.
will leave Washington tomorrow afternoon ior
Tam where no will make a visit OF month OF SIX
weer The principal objects OF his journey are 70 see
Mrs James k Polk and to collect certain historical
mat